Applied linguistics in intercultural communication: a plural approach for multidimensional processes

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Abstract

The study of cognitive, linguistic and social mechanisms underlying human interaction has become a useful tool for the description (and understanding) of the complexity of human mind, through the analysis of specific sociocultural manifestations. This study involves a diversity of disciplines determining specific aims and objectives that focus on a large multiplicity of situations and events. Intercultural communication processes are one of the most recent objects in the epistemological field of applied linguistics (Dervin & Liddicoat, 2013), namely in the large disciplinary domain of Discourse Analysis. However, such a multidimensional object requires a multidimensional and plural approach comprising theories that are inscribed in diverse disciplinary backgrounds linked to this specific epistemological domain: discourse analysis, conversational analysis, critical discourse analysis, psycholinguistics and communication studies. The specific lens used by each of these disciplinary fields will merge into a multi-layered and scaled model, in order to complexify the analytical models available so far. This paper concerns the design of such a model. Its application to the analysis of an authentic corpus of plurilingual interactions will demonstrate the coherence and efficiency of our approach.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationResearch papers on teaching english as an additional language
Editorsİsmail Hakkı Mirici, İsmail Hakkı Erten, Hüseyin Öz, Irena Vodopija-Krstanović
Place of PublicationRijeka
PublisherUniversity of Rijeka
Chapter3
Pages31-60
Number of pages30
ISBN (Electronic)9789537975272
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Keywords

  • Intercomprehension
  • Plurilingual interactions
  • Applied linguistics
  • Intercultural studies

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